Contents:

EDITOR’S LETTER / Maurine Carr Ward

ARTICLES
Missouri’s 1838 Extermination Order and the Mormons’ Forced Removal to Illinois / William G. Hartley
Brigham Young and the Twelve in Quincy: A Return to the Eye of the Missouri Storm, 26 April 1839 / Larry C. Porter
“We Took Our Change of Venue to the State of Illinois”: The Gallatin Hearing and the Escape of Joseph Smith and the Mormon Prisoners from Missouri, April 1839 / Alexander L. Baugh
Quincy–A City of Refuge / Susan Easton Black
The Role of Newspapers in Shaping Public Opinion During the Period of Mormon Arrival in Quincy, 1838-39 / Steve Wiegenstein
“Quincy–the Home of Our Adoption”: A Study of the Mormons in Quincy, Illinois, 1838-40 / Richard E. Bennett
Two Sides of a River: Mormon Transmigration through Quincy, Illinois, and Hannibal, Missouri / Fred E. Woods
The Early Quincy Cemetery and Mormon Burials / Maurine Carr Ward

DOCUMENT
Not Every Missourian Was a Bad Guy: Hiram G. Parks’ 1839 Letter to James Sloan in Quincy, Illinois / Alexander L. Baugh

CONVERSATIONS WITH HISTORIANS
Conversing with “Mr. Kirtland”: An Interview with Karl Ricks Anderson / Interview by Richard D. McClellan

BOOK REVIEW
The Personal Writings of Eliza Roxcy Snow, by Maureen Ursenbach Beecher / Reviewed by Jill Mulvay Derr

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